text
your US postal address to (520) 200-2223 and get a text back with your

STATE
& FEDERAL legislative rep phone numbers.

The Republican “health”
“care” bill released on Thursday still kills all that’s good
about the Affordable Care Act. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-new-health-insurance-bill-faces-the-same-old-roadblocks/?ex_cid=538fb
Let’s fight the repeal and replacement of Obamacare by doing one or more
of the following: A) Use this to
contact our senators: https://www.indivisibleguide.com/resource/impact-of-trumpcare-by-state/,
then 1) Tell your Democratic Senators to: a) Withhold consent on all
Senate business until Republicans open the health care bill to public
hearings and scrutiny, b) Filibuster by amendment, c) Provide your Senators with your own
amendment by filling out this form: https://www.ouramendments.org/,
d) Consider your personal story of how the Affordable Care Act affected
your life and what would happen to you and your family if it is
repealed. OR 2) Call your
Republican Senators and tell them to a) vote against the bill, b) tell
them your personal story of what will happen to you and your family if the
Affordable Care Act is repealed. Then, 3) Participate in the ACA Defenders
HubDialer campaign. This automated call system lets you reach out to
voters in other states and connect them with their Republican members of
Congress. They can then tell their stories and ask their reps to vote NO
on repeal-and-replace. To get started, go to www.hubdialer.com/agent and
follow the on-screen instructions. Enter the Campaign Login ID: 09329 and
Passcode: 171717.

The new GOP healthcare
bill proposal will include the Cruz amendment, allowing insurers to offer
plans that do not fall in line with ACA rules http://bit.ly/2t79Qra According
to a study conducted by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, the amendment
would cause many with pre-existing conditions to be priced out of the
insurance market. Additionally, the lobbying group American Health
Insurance Plans argues that the amendment would destabilize the insurance
market http://read.bi/2vgjHrm Let's
remind our Senators that we do not support the BCRA, and even more so the
Cruz amendment.

“At every turn, Betsy
DeVos has refused to commit to
enforcing Title IX. This reluctance is escalating into a full blown threat
to future enforcement of Title IX. The administration already
egregiously overturned2016
guidance that protected transgender students from Title IX violations.
Now, the administration has signaled that it is seriously considering
further dismantling protections for
survivors of sexual violence by weakening the oversight and enforcement
mechanisms of the federal government — enforcement that many vulnerable
students and survivors need.” http://www.teenvogue.com/story/sexual-assault-survivors-write-letter-to-betsy-devos
Let’s ask Betsy DeVos, along with these 114 sexual assault survivors, “Who
are you here to serve?” https://www2.ed.gov/about/contacts/gen/index.html

The House Appropriations
Committee has approved a 2018 spending bill which would no longer allow
the IRS to enforce the ACA's insurance mandate. The mandate is necessary
to ensure that healthy individuals are also contributing to the insurance
pool, resulting in reasonable prices for healthcare coverage, and
preventing the insurance market from collapsing http://for.tn/2uVGrxu Let's
give our Representatives and the Appropriations Committee a call, letting
them know we oppose this provision in the spending bill. 5calls has a call
script available https://5calls.org/issue/recgHtWhnP7P6tdTM

If we had any illusions
about Steve Bannon’s continuing role in the Trump White House, we should
take heed. Last Saturday, Bannon apparently persuaded Defense
Secretary Jim Mattis, who is engaged in a review of Afghanistan policy, to
meet with Erik D. Prince, founder of the infamous private security firm
Blackwater Worldwide (and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos) and
Stephen A. Feinberg, owner of the military contractor DynCorp
International. Their proposal: privatize the war in Afghanistan by
turning it over to for-profit contractors like themselves: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/11/steve_bannon_wants_private_contractors_to_set_strategy_in_afghanistan.html Luckily, Mattis is not (yet)
persuaded, but we should be reminded just how dangerous Bannon is.
We can tweet Bannon himself (https://twitter.com/stephenbannon) or, maybe more
important, let Mattis know that we don’t want an unaccountable, mercenary
army wreaking havoc in Afghanistan or anywhere else: Dept of Defense, 1400
Defense Pentagon, Washington DC 20301-1400 or 703-571-3343

Special Counsel Robert
Mueller is now looking into Donald Trump Jr.'s e-mails, but in order to
have any kind of transparency or gain insight into the details of his
correspondence, Trump Jr. needs to testify under oath which will likely
happen next week. http://bit.ly/2uOgaBb Let’s
let our senators know that we want Trump Jr. to testify in an open, not a
closed hearing for transparency’s sake.

Let's ask Congress to set
up a better set of requirements and a more severe checking process
for the issuance of security clearances for those in the White House who
are charged with protecting our national security secrets. We can
see that the fault with letting the White House vet these decisions has
left us with people in office that can get away with not disclosing the
whole set of facts to the American People. We need a better vetting
process.

Democrats ​ scored two big
wins in special elections for the Oklahoma state legislature on
Tuesday, flipping a state House and a state Senate seat. http://newsok.com/article/5556001
​Karen Gaddis won her State House seat by 95 votes, so our work writing
postcards to turn people out in that race was extremely important. So
let's keep it up. Tony the Democrat is running another postcard Get
Out the Vote campaign to help protect a state Senate seat in New
Hampshire. We can sign up and get more details here: http://mailchi.mp/ind-d6/new-postcard-campaign-in-new-hampshire

Let's take a look at this
guide from the UN, The Lazy Person's Guide to Saving the World, to find
small ways we can help the environment as individuals: http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/takeaction/
Let's share this guide with our friends and family via email and Facebook.
Every small action and lifestyle change matters.

Petitions

Let’s join Credo Action
and “tell the FBI and the National Background Investigations Bureau:
Immediately take steps to suspend Jared Kushner’s security clearance until
an independent Trump-Russia investigation is complete.” https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Kushner_Clearance

“The Senate’s proposed
health care plan would devastate rural America. With nearly 700 rural
hospitals across the country already teetering on the brink of bankruptcy,
this bill could very well push them over the edge, as it slashes hundreds
of billions of dollars from the Medicaid program they depend on.” Let’s sign and tell the Senate to
protect rural healthcare: https://petitions.signforgood.com/ruralhealthcare

Marches/events to
attend/organize

Next Tuesday, July 18,
across the country, Indivisible is sponsoring a National Day of Action to
Stop Trumpcare. Sign up for more
information here: http://action.indivisibleguide.com/

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Rogan’s List is a daily, thoroughly vetted action list for people who are unhappy with the current administration and who want to become more politically involved, but do not have time for the research. The compiler, Susan Goodrich Rogan, is a retired librarian who has worked in university, community college, and elementary school libraries. She is the mother of eleven and the grandmother of nine..